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- City author gets NY Times thumbs-up - Winnipeg Free Press
City author gets NY Times thumbs-upWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 46 minutes agoA collection of travel poetry that includes a poem about Churchill has been nominated for a prestigious British poetry prize, reported London's Guardian ...
- I've had 30 lovers, Carla Bruni tells world - and it's music to ... - Times Online
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost. “You ...
- Gray Line, the tour operator, remains confident: Give us some time ... - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
Gray Line, the tour operator, remains confident: Give us some time ...Staten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - 5 hours agoDavid Paterson (sans the poetry) in an unusual televised speech on July 31. And when Paterson compared the state's current financial woes to the 1970s, ...
- Recent Original Stories (OS News)
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
- daily digest 6.24 - Daily Herald
• Congratulations to Isaac Earl, a Utah County Academy of Sciences student from Orem who was awarded an AFS 2008 Arabic Summer Language Institute Scholarship, a distinction shared by only 30 high school students nationwide. This prestigious, merit ...
- E.M. Forster, Middle Manager (New York Review of Books)
An article by Zadie Smith from The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2008
- Leader sent to war crimes court - Sydney Morning Herald
Caught … Radovan Karadzic presents a bizarrely different face after his arrest on Monday. A SERBIAN judge has decided to hand over the arrested former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The ...
- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (Canoe Travel)
WASHINGTON - Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- 10 things you ought to know about David Silverberg (+ Contest!) - blogTO
blogTO10 things you ought to know about David Silverberg (+ Contest!)blogTO, Canada - 2 hours agoThe Toronto Poetry Slam has been a regular monthly happening since November 2005: "It used to be a roving slam. We're at the Drake full-time for now. ...
- Wild and Untamed Thing - Fort Worth Weekly
Arlington singer-songwriter Jessie Frye sounds older than her 19 years on The Delve, her recently released debut EP. But the precocious talent on that record, however impressive, has precedents. The soft ethereal vocals that sail unexpectedly into ...
- ‘It’sa Wonderful World’ - Puyallup Herald
‘It’sa Wonderful World’Puyallup Herald, WA - 16 minutes agoClasses from kindergarten to fifth grade performed songs, dances, poetry and stories about cultures from around the world. The program is part of the ...
- In transit - The Times
In transitThe Times, South Africa - 3 minutes agoThe UK’s Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 has been won by John Lucas, a former poetry editor, for 92 Acharnon Street, a portrait of Greece. ...
- The Wild Places - Monsters and Critics
Robert Macfarlane has a new book called The Wild Places . It is a follow up to his earlier work, Mountains of the Mind, which is actually quite a good book. The NYT praised The Wild Places, calling it: “anything but twee. It is a formidable ...
- The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion, by Paddy Docherty - Registan.net
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion, by Paddy DochertyRegistan.net, WA - 49 minutes agoThere is a tendency to write off the Pashtuns as if they are simply unspeakably violent death-zombies, without bothering to understand the historical and ...
- How Britain wages war - CASMII
How Britain wages warCASMII, DC - 19 hours agoThe fourth photograph is of a young British soldier, Gavin Williams, who was "beasted" to death by three non-commissioned officers. ...
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